Who Knows Up From Down..

They just keep talking, even though they can't get their story straight. And, as you might guess, that can often lead to trouble.

Signing statement contradiction

Jonathan Schwarz has a great catch on Bush’s signing statements. When Charlie Savage of the Boston Globe first began writing stories about Bush’s presidential signing statements last year, former Bush administration lawyers told us not to be concerned: Jack Goldsmith, a Harvard Law School professor who until last year oversaw the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel [...]

Contradictions notwithstanding, Congress is loading up to look for anaswers..

Congress to investigate Bush’s signing statements.

After a recent GAO report found that federal agencies ignored 30 percent of the laws President Bush objected to in signing statements last year, lawmakers now “say they plan to dig deeper into the Bush administration’s use of bill-signing statements as ways to circumvent Congressional intent.” Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) and Rep. John Conyers [...]

The issue got quite heated during last night's edition of Countdown with Keith Olbermann:

Countdown: Federal Officials Rebelling Against Bush Signing Statements

As Steve wrote about earlier today, President Bush, in a blatant abuse of his power and the law, has used signing statements to rewrite some 1100 laws enacted by Congress, which is more than all other presidents in our nation’s history–combined. On Tuesday’s “Countdown”, Jonathan Turley joined Keith Olbermann to discuss those signing statements [...]

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